The New York Times listed ‘Mexicanamerican’ as one of only seven other highlights from this year’s Tribeca Festival.
“An earlier form of media is collaged into a moving ancestral story in ‘Mexicanamerican’ from Eddie Sánchez. For his feature debut, the filmmaker sifted through hours of home video recorded by his parents, Lalo and Beby, to assemble the tale of their meeting in Mexico and move to Oregon, where they raised their children. The footage originally served as a kind of visual missive, captured by Lalo and Beby to mail to relatives in Mexico. Pairing the video with candid interviews about his parents’ passage to the United States and efforts to assimilate to a new culture, Sánchez crafts a portrait of diasporic identity that pulls from the past while tilting hopefully toward the future.”